Barrel-register



(No Model.)

0. MULLER 81: J. MAUSEB.

BARREL REGISTER.

No. 268,926. Patented Dec. 12, 1882.

WITNESSES INVENTDR 64 up I M. r BY ATTORNEYS.

one bar can be forced down at a time.

7 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CONRAD MULLER AND JOHN MAUSER, OF MORRISANIA, NEW YORK.

BARREL-REGlSTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 268,926, dated December12, 1882.

Application filed September 19, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, CONRAD MULLER and JOHN MAUSER, of Morrisania, inthe county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain newand useful Improvements in BarretRegisters, of which the following is afull, clear, and exact description.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part 'ofthis specification, in which similar letters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a front elevation of our improve ment, part being brokenaway. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is a sectional planview of the same, taken through the line :0 a0, Fig.2.

The object of this invention is to provide barrel-registers constructedin such amanner as to classify the barrels according to size andregister the number of each size as the said barrels are being carriedup an elevator or along a carrier.

The invention consists in a barrel-register constructed with a weightedlever connected by gearing with a cylinder provided with teeth arrangedin a spiral row to operate upon a series of parallel bars held forwardby a sliding plate and spring and connected with the pawllevers ofaregister. The sliding-plate is locked in position when holding theparallel bars in place, when pushed back by the last tooth of thecylinder, by a spring-pressed lever-pawl, which is tripped by an armconnected with the weighted lever as the said cylinder completes itsrearward movement, so that only To the parallel bars are attachedadjustable stops to come in contact with the face of the cylinder andforce the shoulders of the said bars off the teeth 'of the cylinderpromptly, as will be hereinafter fully described.

A represents the floor or other supports to which the standards or endframes, B, of the machine are secured.

To the upper forward parts of the standards B is journaled a shaft, 0,with which is rig-' idly connected a lever, D.

To the lever D is attached a weight, E, of suiiicient gravity to bringthe said lever and the various parts of the register to their normalposition afterthesaid lever has been raised. The outer end of the leverD, or of an arm, D, formed upon the said lever, projects into such aposition as to be struck and raised by each barrel that passes along theelevator or carrier, and is so formed as to slide easily upon the saidbarrel, as illustrated in Fig. 1.

The lever D can be securedv directly to the shaft 0; but we prefer totit the inner end of the lever D into a socket, F, and secure it in thesaid socket by a set-screw, G. The rear end of the socket F has atransverse hole formed through it to receive the shaft 0, and is securedto the said shaft by a set'screw, H. WVith this construction, byloosening the setscrew G the lever D can be detached and its shape canbe changed, or it can be replaced with another lever of a differentshape, as the. direction in which the barrel is being carried by theelevator or carrier may require; and by loosening the set-screw H thesocket F, and with it the lever D, can be adjusted in any desiredposition upon the shaft (3.

To the shaft 0, near one end, is secured the hub of a segment, I, of aratchet-wheel, the teeth of which mesh into the teeth of asinallgear-wheel, J, attached to the shaft K. The shaft K is journaled to therear upper parts of the standards or frames 13, and to it is attached acylinder or drum, L, to the face of which are attached as many lugs orteeth M as there are sizes of barrels to be registered. Each succeedingtooth M is placed a little in the rear of the preceding tooth U, so thatthe said teeth will stand in a spiral row.

At the rear side ofthe cylinder L are placed as many parallel uprightbars N as there are teeth M on the said cylinder L, so that each bar Nwill be pushed back by its corresponding tooth, M, as the said tooth israised by the forward movement of the said cylinder. The bars N aredrawn forward as each bar N is released from a tooth M by the spiral orother shaped spring 0, one end of which is attached to the floor orsupport A, and its other end is attached to the plate P, sliding uponthe said supportA, and keptin place by screws Q, passing through slots Rin the said plate and screwing into the said support. The plate 1 hasholes formed through its rear part to receive the lower ends of the barsN, so that all the said bars will be moved from and toward the cylinderL at the same time.

Upon the inner edge of each barNisformed a shoulder, N, for thecorresponding tooth M to strike against as the cylinder L is turnedback, so that each bar N will be drawn downward by its tooth M by thebackward movement of the said cylinder L.

To the forward edge ofeach bar N is attached a stop, S, which has aflange formed upon it to overlap the side of the bar N and receive thebolt T, by which the said stop is secured to the said bar. The bars Nare slotted longitudinally to receive the bolts T, so that the stops Scan be adjusted higher or lower, as may be required. With thisconstruction, as the bars N approach the lower limit of their stroke thestops S come in contact with the face of the cylinder L and are pushedback, withdrawing the shoulder N of the bar N from the tooth M promptlyand allowing the said bar to be raised to its normal position. The upperends of the bars N are hinged to the ends of the pawl-levers U of aregister, V, which is constructed in the ordinary manner,

except that the springs (not shown, they being arranged within theregister-case) that raise the pawls and pawl-levers, after they arelowered in making astroke, should be made strong enough to also raisethe bars N, suspended from the said pawl-levers. The register V is madewith as many index-fingers as there are bars N, and the saidindex-fingers can be arranged to move over the same dial or overseparate dials, as may be desired. We prefer to use one dial, as makingthe register more compact.

It will be noticed that were the pawl W, hereinafter described, notprovided, when the cylinder makes its rearward movement, after havingbeen turned so far forward as to cause the third tooth M thereof to liftthe shoulder N ofthe third bar N, the first tooth of said cylinder couldnot be prevented from en gaging with the shoulder of its coincidentbarduring the continued rearward movement of the cylinder, when it isonly desired that said third tooth shall engage with the shoulder of itsbar, the effect of which would be that a registration of two barrelswould take place, instead of one, as should be the case, and thus make afalse or untrue record. To prevent this incorrect registration, we pivota lever-pawl, WV, to the floor or support A in such a position that itsengaging end will be forced by a spring, X, attached to the support A,into a notch, Y, in the edge of the sliding plate P, whenthe said plateis slid back by the action of the third tooth upon the third bar N, thesaid third tooth being made longer than the others to cause it to movethe said plate P a little farther than it is mo ed by the other teeth.The lever-pawl W, which is brought into action with the sliding notchedplate P when the third tooth of the cylinder L has been raised above theshoulder N on the coincident or third bar N, and which remains inengagement with the said plate after the said tooth has returned pastthe shoulder of its bar upon the reverse movement of the cylinder, istripped, when the first tooth has returned past the shoulder of its bar,byan arm, Z, attached to the shaft 0, or to the hub of the gear-segmentI, in such a position that it will strike and tripthe said lever-pawl atthe propertime. By means of this construction only one bar N can beforced down at each rearward movement of the cylinder L.

In using the machine, as the ditferent-sized barrels are carried up anelevator or along a carrier the smallest barrels will raise the lever Dhigh enough to cause the first tooth M of the cylinder L to rise withthe forward turn thus imparted to the cylinder, and upon the downwardmovement of the lever, which is caused by the escape of the barrel pastit, the said tooth will be carried downward, the movement of itscylinder being thus reversed, and thus force down the first bar N. Thenext larger barrels will raise the lever D so high as to cause thesecond tooth M of the cylinder L to rise above the shoulder N of thesecond bar N, and be aifected in like manner as the first tooth of thecylinder L, and cause it to force down the second bar N; and the barrelsof the third size will raise the lever D so high as to cause the thirdtooth M of the cylinder-L to rise above the shoulder N of the third barN, and be similarly acted on as the teeth of the two previous bars, andcause it to operate the third bar N, so that the barrels of each sizewill always lower their particular bar, and thus always operate theirown register-index.

Having thus fully described our invention, we claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent 1. A barrel-register constructed s tially asherein shown and described, and consistin g of a weighted leverconnected by a gearing with a cylinder provided with a spiral row ofteeth to operate upon a series of bars held forward by a spring and asliding plate and connected with the pawl-levers of a register, as setforth.

2. In abarrel-register, the combination, with the cylinder L, havingspirally-arranged teeth M, of the gear-wheel J, gear-segment I, andweighted lever D, substantially as herein shown and described, wherebythe said cylinder will he rocked for different distances by the movementof the said lever through correspondingly-different spaces, as setforth.

3. In a barrel-register, the combination, with the cylinder L, having aspirally-arran ged row of teeth, M, and the pawl-levers U ofa register,V, of a series of parallel upright bars, N, having'shoulders N,substantiallyas herein shown and described, whereby the said bars willbe forced downward to operate the said lever pawls by the rearwardmovement of the said toothed cylinder, as set forth.

at. In a barrel register, the combination,

with the bars N, connected with the leverpawls of a register, of thesliding plate P and the spring 0, substantially as herein shown anddescribed, whereby the said bars will be 5 held forward and keptparallel, so as to always be in position to be operated upon by theteeth of the rocking cylinder, as set forth.

5. In a barrel-register, the com bination,with

the sliding plate P and the weighted lever D,

10 of the lever-pawl W, the spring V, and the arm Z, substantially asherein shown and described, whereby the said sliding plate will belocked in place, holding the parallel suspended bars back from thetooth-cylinder, and will 15 be tripped by the said arm as the saidcylinder completes its rearward movement, as set CONRAD MULLER. JOHNMAUSER.

Witnesses:

JAMES T. GRAHAM, O. SEDGWIGK.

